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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
Benjamin Rush
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Benjamin Rush
Age: 67 †
Born: 1746
Born: January 7
Died: 1813
Died: April 19
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
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In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
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Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
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By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
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...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
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A simple democracy is the devil's own government.
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Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
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Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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